In the exercise, I have to select five words from the mind mapping of " Mortar & Pestle " which done by lecturer.

◦ BEAUTIFUL

Back to year 2010, people used mortar and pestle as a make up tools.

◦ MUSICBack to year 2010, people used mortar and pestle as a musical instrument.

◦ COOKBack to year 2010, people used mortar and pestle as cooking items.

◦ WEAPONBack to year 2010, people used mortar and pestle as a weapon to protect their safety.

◦ DESIGNBack to year 2010, people used mortar and pestle as cloth decorations.

Personal Reflection:In the class, Mr. Radzi Bedu explain on the differences between left-brained and right-brained. Left-brained is more on logical mind while the right-brained is more on to creative. We must develop both sides of brain because no one is totally left-brained or right-brained.

STEP 3Drawing:This is what i have drew in class. I use pencil to sketch it and render it to make it looks more horrible.

Personal Reflection:From this lesson, lecturer teach us how to solve problem step by step based on some situation by using different ways of solution. It guide us to think creatively and solve a problem more effectively.

SHARINGI would like to a quote by this week.“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” — Edward de Bono

JUXTAPOSITION-Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition. By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or transfer meaning. Usually ‘turning’ something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa.-There are two types of juxtaposition, literary and random juxtaposition.

(a) Juxtaposition (literary)It is refer to synonymous with the contrast, two objects or text that against with each other.

(b) Random JuxtapositionIt is refer to solve problems, design or other creative ideas to stimulate the pursuit of the two facing unrelated concepts or objects.

Below are some images that taken from google image.

The image of juxtaposition to show the differences in between man and woman.

This is another image which using the juxtaposition technique. In the picture, the guy in left hand side is the tallest guy in the world, the right hand side is the shortest guy. It make a strong comparison.

The example of juxtaposition that mentioned in the class by lecturer is the TV series, LOST.It shows the comparison in between-Love / Hate-East / West-Chaos / Calm-Life / Death...and etc.

Today, the exercise was given to create a mind map about MYSELF. And this is my mindmap. It is mostly use the technique of divergent because i start my mindmap in the middle. All the information about me are surrounding me.

CREATIVE THINKING◦ Convergent thinkingIt generally means the ability to give the correct answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity, for instance in most tasks in school and on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.Example, Solving many problems in a single proper way.

◦ Divergent thinkingIt is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions.Example, Use the smartest way to reach a location in a shortest time.

MINDMAP-introduced by Tony Buzan is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. It enhance both sides of the human brain and widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas.

Defining mind mappingMind mapping is a diagram which enhance both sides of human brain, often used to generate, visualize , structure ideas. Mind mapping is to stimulate and create interest in the individual and also to audience.

Examples of mindmap taken from google image

mind mapping can be devided into logical and associated mind map

◦ Logical Mind Map - Every word or image through stereotype links are directly related to the central theme◦ Associated Mind Map - Can generate random words and the links between the words seem no connection.

A stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions. Generally speaking, stereotypes are not based on objective truth but rather subjective and sometimes unverifiable content-matter.

SHARINGI want to share a quote on this week, which is...“When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.” – Linda Naiman

NOVELTYNovelty is the quality of being new. It is something new which is amazing, original or unusual. It essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals.

Can u guess what is this?

It is totally different from the old one. The design is new, this is what we call novelty. The objects in the images, i mean the dog, guitar and frog, they are lighters.

How about this? it is a piggybank for kids. The design is look like a Hippopotamus.

This is a Rubik's Cube, the different thing is it contains light so you can even play it when you are in dark. Novelty.

CREATIVITY:the generation of new ideas or a new way of doing things.

These are the creative products that i have found through google images.

Creative set of knife.

Creative keyboard that every button filled with various kind of colours.

INNOVATION:

Innovation is a process of making improvement on the products and make it more useful.

Special skate where the designer turn the normal shape into a leaf, it can let u feel like u are flying in the wind when u are using it.

This is one design that is really innovative. It combines slipper and shoes into one set. I wish i could have one also.

This cooking device is designed specially for modern picnic. People can bring it easily to everywhere because it is very convinient and useful which different from the normal heavy cooking device.

INVENTION:

I laugh when i saw this image for the first time. It might be funny but it is an invention too. Invention is always starting with new ideas, that is why it looks weird at first, may be after more explorenation on it, it can become a better invention and more comfortable while we are using it.

CREATING IMAGE OF PUBLIC FIGURE

Takehiko Inoue

Takehiko Inoue(井上雄彦,Inoue Takehiko?, born 12 January 1967 in Okuchi, Kagoshima) is a Japanesemangaartist, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk, which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball because they read the manga. This in turn helped make basketball popular in Japan and across East Asia.

Inoue has been drawing manga mainly in male-oriented magazines. Inoue's name is ordered as Takehiko Inoue on his books sold in North America through Viz Media (Vagabond,Slam Dunk, and Real), although Gutsoon! Entertainment's earlier Slam Dunk translations in North America used Inoue Takehiko.

The next work he produced was Buzzer Beater, a collaboration with ESPN in 1997. About a basketball team from Earth that attempts to compete on the intergalactic level, it appears on his official web site in four languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean. Buzzer Beater was produced into a 13 episode anime series in 2005. In 2007 a second 13 episode series was produced. Both season were animated by TMS Entertainment.

Inoue also did design work for MistWalker's Lost Odyssey, an RPG released on the Xbox 360. He is also a published sports writer, having written articles and columns for publications such as HOOP.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

One of his comic that i like the most. <> The drawing techniques is excellent, the emotions and feelings are expressed well through his drawing techniques.

His special technique that different from other comicers is he likes to use chinese caligraphy writing brush to draw certain scene. It is an owesome way to show the impact of the story.

SHARING

the quote of the week is....
“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda

Defining CreativityFrom my point of view, creativity has the ability to create different but useful things to improve our life, just like interior design and product design. These design not only decorate and turn our life to become more interesting, it also let us feel more comfortable with it. Beside that, it can generate solution to solve issues or problems effectively as well as save times in our daily life.

These are the interior design images taken from google that i want to share.

I like how the designer apply the colour tone in the room, this kind of design is suitable for kids. It bring happiness to children. It can make a person's childhoodfull of memory of joy.

Personally, i will do this to my room if i own one. Although the room is whole white colour, but the drawing on the wall and the bed, everyone can make it. The owner can draw anything and apply any style that they like on the drawing. This will bring us a unic design, totally different from the others. Every single line is come out from your own, your own style.

This kind of design has become more and more comman in our daily life nowadays. However, i still want to praise these designers. They throw the mindset of the older generation because in the past, if we think about toilet, we will think it is a dirty place. But now, toilets in shopping malls are all designed creatively. Users can relax and refresh their mind after a tiring walk to gain back energy.

What is creativity?

From the class today, i have learnt a lot of things and i have summaries the notes given by lecturer. Commonly, these are what i get from the class. Everyone can be creative.We just have to develope our ability and try to motivate ourselves as well as go beyond it.We have to work hard to develope our creativity to let it become the second nature of us. Just like what Thomas Edison said, Creativity is an attitude, combine with effort; 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Problem is the key for us to learn and to improve our life, it gives us chances to face it,solve our problem and at the same time, solve it in a creative way.Creativity works similarly to muscles in our body. To have creativity easily accessible to us, we should use it on a regular basis. The more we use it in our daily life the easier it will flow.Usually there are many years of hard work behind every great innovation.

People who are successfull in their lifes usually struggle a lot.Majority of creative endeavors are improving upon concepts that already exist or putting several old concepts into a new combination. Creative idea is not a product of one person effort. It is a synthesis of many elements, ideas, context, knowledge, etc?Environment plays a big role to the creation of a unique or new idea.Brainstorming can be fun. The trick is to find one that works for you. Creative idea take place in the least expected environment.

Creativity belongs to everyone and it is not just the domain of an artist. Creativities can be applied in most aspect of our daily life.Everybody is different, we have to find the techniques that work better for us. There is no difference in the quality of one technique over another, only the personality of the users are different. Any technique that sparks your creativty more, just work on it.

Personal Reflection:

During the lecture, Mr.Mus told us that everyone are born with creative mind but different in perspective and point of views. YA! It is very true, some people always say that they are not creative, this is the thinking which kill their creativity. If we are not willing to work hard, how can we become creative? All of us are born with the ability to be creative. This is our human nature. Many great artists and creative people like scientist and inventors, they have left clear footprints in their work. Behind the creative, no one does not know their hardship and hard work for an artwork. The genius that well known in the past is like Leonardo Da Vinci. I very admire his work, it is very creative and i can see all the afford that he had done in his works.

These are some examples of Leornado da vinci's artwork i want to share.

Do you know how many secrets and history were hidden in this artwork? Scientist, film makers, artists, geologists, and historiographers study on it for hundreds of years. Try to imagine, how many hard work he has put on it and time spent on it to insert all his ideas and his technique.

This is the drawing that drawn by leornado, it is about the movement of human's body. In order to draw this picture, he has to know the anatomy of human being, this is what he study before he create a artwork.

We can see it from these two pictures, not only the outside of human body, he also study the organs inside our body. These are all hard works. This is why he can be a creative person.

There are also the studies of planes and other machines. Knowlegde are needed to be creative. Creative is not fully imagination. This is one of the images of planes that created by him.

From the lesson, we learnt about CREATIVITY in class. Creativity can not be obtained easily and we need times as well as afford, more afford, to learn from basic skills and every single part so that we can perform well in our work. It is not a easy job to be creative but everyone have the ability to be creative.

CREATIVE PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND

This is the images i draw for my friend, Stevan Lee,with Adobe Illustrator. In my mind, he is person that full of sense of humour. Although he looks cool from the outside, actually he is a funny person, friendly and smart. Thats why i draw him with tattoo and cool expression but there is a flower in his mouth.

SHARINGI'm going to share a quote by this week too, it is...

“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” — William James

What is creative studies?Creative studies is to introduce and provide creative thinking and problem solving in the face of problems and issues. There are several type of creative studies such as lateral thinking, mind mapping and new ideas.

Personal Reflection:

From the class today, i have learnt a lot of things. "creativity is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration", this is what people used to say. It is true because if we don't spend time and energy to think of it, we will not be a creative person forever. U will gain nothing if u on't put any afford on it. Just like our famous scientist, Thomas Edison. How to be a creative person like him? We have to think out of the box.

These are some images i found in google that related to creative thinking.A man's head was split into half and there are lots of different contents inside it.

If we want to be creative, we have to really struggle hard, by then, we can just get a different idea from the others.